<font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">I am a beginner to programming and where I know I have the most problems is just trying to understand the math behind what I am trying to do. </font><div>
<font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">For example I am working through the exercise 3.1.1 in HTDP. It states "<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">make up examples for each of the functions. Determine how many attendees can afford a show at a ticket price of $3.00, $4.00, and $5.00. Use the examples to formulate a general rule that shows how to compute the number of attendees from the ticket price." </span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3" face="'courier new', monospace"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3" face="'courier new', monospace">1st Question: Without the functions already defined how am I suppose to work through examples?!?!</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3" face="'courier new', monospace"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3" face="'courier new', monospace">2nd Question: When it says "use the examples to formulate a general rule that shows the how to compute the number of attendees from the ticket price" I don't understand at all how to do this</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3" face="'courier new', monospace"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3" face="'courier new', monospace">3rd Question: I looked ahead and it defines the attendees function as (+ 120 (* (/15 .10)(-5.00 ticket-price) I understand the the 120 is the attendees that can afford the $5 ticket price, the 15 is the additional attendees when dropping the price and the .10 is the amount the price has been dropped. I do not understand why I am dividing 15 by .10 or why I am subtracting the standard price of $5 by the entered ticket-price and multiplying the two together. </font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3" face="'courier new', monospace"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3" face="'courier new', monospace">I am learning this on my own so I do not have a teacher to ask these questions too, and I am not looking for any answers, I want to figure everything on my own, I just need explanations to these questions because I am honestly lost. </font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><br></font></font><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">Jeremy D. Duenas</font><br>
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